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FS#43078 - [file] fails to uncompress xz archive

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Christian Hesse (eworm) - Thursday, 11 December 2014, 14:08 GMT
Last edited by Sébastien Luttringer (seblu) - Thursday, 11 December 2014, 20:50 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To Sébastien Luttringer (seblu)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
file 5.21 fails to uncompress xz archive, thus xz compressed tar archives are not detected. The issue breaks extraction in makepkg.

With file 5.20:
# file -bizL git-2.1.3.tar.xz
application/x-tar; charset=binary compressed-encoding=application/x-xz; charset=binary

With file 5.21:
# file -bizL git-2.1.3.tar.xz
application/x-xz; charset=binary

Patch is available in git master:
https://github.com/file/file/commit/abc95cd644418cc5205a8ad07d864f0851ac49df.patch

Additional info:
file 5.21-1
This task depends upon

Closed by  Sébastien Luttringer (seblu)
Thursday, 11 December 2014, 20:50 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  file-5.21-2

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